## STRUGGLE AGAINST FAMINE

material, having assigned you the task of directing [to] such [measures] 50% of the... 
collected [at] dispatch points according to the plan which should reach 
you without delay. I propose [that you] treat [with] utmost attention 
the accurate, complete and economical fulfillment of the Council of Labor 
and Defense's assignment. Immediately clarify the inevitability of this measure, 
appeal [to] the sense [of] proletarian [and] peasant solidarity, the categorical 
necessity of assisting with seeds this year those gubernias which over the course 
of three years have surrendered their food surpluses to the consuming internal, 
working gubernias. Energetically conduct this campaign with the calculation 
that by the time of sowing the seeds will be on location. It is absolutely 
impermissible to delay the collection of the seed loan beyond August 15. 
[Regarding] the difficulty of rapid implementation of the present campaign, 
the Party obligates itself to direct great attention. Party discipline, with 
improvement of the apparatus, [must serve] the clarification of the quantity 
of seed loan, its collection, [which] is especially underscored by the 
responsibility of the moment. Having placed the matter of seed redistribution 
at the center of your attention, obligate the gubernia food committees and 
gubernia land departments to report precisely on schedule [regarding] the work 
completed, for report to the Council of Labor and Defense, [and] also to the 
Central Committee. [0756].

Deputy Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
Deputy People's Commissar of Land Iv. Theodorovich.
Deputy People's Commissar of Food Bryukhanov.
Secretary of the CC RCP V. Mikhailov.

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TELEPHONOGRAM TO M. I. KALANIN  
AND L. B. KAMENEV*

To Kalanin and Kamenev.

July 19, 1921

Kalanin informed me of an idea that has arisen to collect a special 
amount—one pound per pud of collected grain—to assist the starving in 
the Volga region. I request that you inform me whether this question has 
been set in motion and when you intend to push it through the Presidium 
of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee*. In my view, it is necessary: 
1) to do this immediately, 2) in the order of the utmost urgency to demand 
that each district send several carloads of grain to the Volga region with 
the mandatory accompaniment of this grain by two or three local peasants who

* Printed from a typewritten copy. —Ed.